Unusual Thailand
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ENThis thread on TravelForum.com inspired me to take this small series of photos. Unusual or funny scenes, captured during my various trips to the "land of smiles"... Thai Amazing! (Slogan of the Thai tourist office.)
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Click on the images to see them in big size ...
phallic
tourist
Thai style: same but different!
Our friends the animals ...
Long-tail boats
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Woooaaah,
I oscillate between depression and nostalgia when I see these photos!
And oddly enough the first Babouk I saw in Thailand was in Tao... Do you think we met the same one? 😯
If you make a Thai cat drink a foreign beer, no doubt it'll be ready to change sex 😉
@ Akway: Ah, I too was feeling nostalgic as I went through my photo archives to select these images... Thanks to you, I've discovered the little name of this impressive spider: babouk. I don't know if we've seen the same one, but one thing's for sure: in this climate, leggy beasties are a doddle (cockroaches/blattes/cancrels, which love to squat in bathrooms, are pretty scary too). In fact, the only little critters I really like in tropical latitudes are the friendly mosquito-eating geckos. And then, the cry of the gecko, in the evening, on the bungalow terrace, has an indefinable charm for me...
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@ Martial: Hey, hey, that's your persiflage! 😆
No reason to fear baboons Corinne,
they are spiders that do not bite unless they are cornered (they do not weave webs either).
On the other hand, they actively hunt (by chasing them) the cockroaches and other cockroaches that make up their daily meal( so the damsel has everything to please you). It's like a bottle of Baygon on legs, but without the chemicals 🙂
Since I know that, I spare them when I find them in my bungalow.
cf. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babouk
Otherwise I better for the song of the gecko at night in the woods, finally if we talk about the same strange sound ...
Tou-kéééééy!
@ akway:
I'm not too fussy about bugs, actually. I usually let them live their lives, even if I don't really like the idea of living with a spider that size. Thanks for the link!
I don't really blame spiders for being so ugly, considering how useful they are in other ways (mosquito and cockroach eaters). I spare them too, I'm an animal lover!
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As for the song of the gecko, for my part I transcribe it as follows:
Guek-koooo!
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